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Item Symposium on Modernism in the Arts: The Dance(Bennington College, 1933-06) Hill, MarthaDance is an art which makes meaning evident through movement. True, any art derives part of its meanings from motion or motionlessness. Motion and motionlessness, like sound and silence, enhance each other. Sculpture and painting use those negative and positive poles in their motionless masses or flowing contours. These arts suggest movement without employing actual movement. On the other hand, the cinema, the drama to a lesser extent, and the dance above all, use actual movement to make manifest their meanings. The dance then is truly a movement art: its medium is movement; its instrument, the human body.Item Letter from Zora Neale Hurston regarding a June 6 1935 visit to Bennington College(1935-05-23) Hurston, Zora NealeItem Letter to Zora Neale Hurston regarding details about her June 6 1935 visit to Bennington College(1935-05-24) Jones, CatharineItem Zora Neale Hurston Press Release(Bennington College, 1935-06-05)Item Art that Pays Series: Music. Summary of discussion by Otto Luening(1936-04-16)The Art that Pays was a series of discussions held at Bennington College in April and May of 1936. The intent of the series was to analyze contemporary popular arts "which have developed from the modern methods of machine reproduction and the resulting cheap, widespread distribution through such agencies as the movies, the radio and the power press...these arts will inevitably seen in comparison with the great or classic traditional art in each field and with the experimental contemporary forms discussed four years ago" in the 1933 symposium on Modernism in the Arts.Item Bishop, Eloise(1938)Item Osato, Teru(1939)Item Fujii, Sumiko(1942)Item We Honor...Eloise Bishop(1942)Found this snippet at http://momalibrary.tumblr.com/. The article is not complete.Item Evaluation of the General Meetings Program 1945-46(Bennington College, 1945)Evaluations for each General Meetings Program in 1945-46. One document is the summary of responses from 16 faculty and staff responses and the other is the summary of responses from 75 students.Item Negro: Their Works Win (Life Magazine Article)(Life Magazine, 1946-07-22)This article appeared in the July 22, 1946 Life Magazine and highlighted works by twelve Black artists - Eloise Bishop '38 was the only female.Item The Beacon Volume 1 Number 5(Bennington College, 1947-06-05) Frankenthaler, HelenItem The Beacon Volume 1 Number 16(Bennington College, 1947-12-17) Sherwin, Mary ElizabethInter-Racial Conference Held at Princeton // Winter Work Period Plans // Dance Workshop Presented to Enthusiastic Audience // Chorus Sings at Metropolitan Museum // Art-Literature Seminar: "Some Versions of Primitive" // John Smith Speaks at SDA Meeting // Review of Dance Workshop // Bennington Student Writes From ParisItem The Beacon Volume 2 Number 3(Bennington College, 1948-05-12) Lee, CynthiaVermont Forum Discusses Racial Discrimination // Tentative Plans fo Army Film on College // Pres. Burkhardt, Mrs. Franklin, Students Speak at Philadelphia // President Burkhardt Presents Idea for Integration of Social Science and Political Economy // What's This About a "Freshman Menace?" // Anne Poor's Exhibit a Success // Art Historian Speaks at SeminarItem The Beacon Volume 2 Number 9(Bennington College, 1948-09-30) Lee, CynthiaCollege Chooses Dewey as Next President // Campus Progressive Party Meets // The Vermont ForumsItem The Beacon Volume 2 Number 14(Bennington College, 1948-11-24) Lee, CynthiaDance Workshop Presents Variety of Material and Treatment // Chorus to Give Carnegie Concert Dec. 5th // Dog Days at Bennington Are OverItem The Dance Center of the YM-YWHA presents Sarah Lawrence College & Bennington College (Program)(Bennington College, 1949-04-09) Bales, William, 1910-1990; Winter, EthelItem The Beacon Volume 3 Number 10(Bennington College, 1949-11-03) Pattison, Olivia;Item Ira Reid and George Soule(Bennington College, 1950-04)Item Dr. Ralph Bunche and Frederick Burkhardt(Bennington College, 1950-04)